Isaiah

Isaiah Institute Translation

Jehovah empowers his servant as an arm of righteousness to deliver his people in an exodus to Zion.

1 Hear me, you followers of righteousness,seekers of Jehovah:Look to the rock from which you were cut,to the quarry out of which you were hewn;2 look to Abraham your father,to Sarah who bore you.He was but one when I called him,but I blessed him by making him many.3 For Jehovah is comforting Zion,bringing solace to all her ruins;he is making her wilderness like Eden,her desert as the garden of Jehovah.Joyful rejoicing takes place there,thanksgiving with the voice of song.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens;look on the earth beneath:the heavens shall vanish as by smoke,the earth wear out like a garment—its inhabitants shall die in the manner of vermin.But my salvation shall be everlasting;my righteousness shall never fail.

7 Hear me, you who know righteousness,O people in whose heart is my law:Do not fear the reproach of men;be undaunted by their ridicule.8 For the moth shall consume them like a garment;moths shall devour them like wool.But my righteousness shall endure forever,my salvation through endless generations.

9 Awake, arise; clothe yourself with power,O arm of Jehovah!Bestir yourself, as in ancient times,as in generations of old.Was it not you who carved up Rahab,you who slew the dragon?10 Was it not you who dried up the Sea,the waters of the mighty deep,and made of ocean depths a wayby which the redeemed might pass?11 Let the ransomed of Jehovah return!Let them come singing to Zion,their heads crowned with everlasting joy;let them obtain joy and gladness,and sorrow and sighing flee away.

12 I myself am your Comforter.Who are you that you fear mortal man,the children of men who shall be turned to grass?13 Have you forgotten Jehovah, your Maker—who suspends the heavens,who sets the earth in place—that you go all day in constant dreadof the oppressor’s rageas he readies himself to wreak destruction?What is there to the wrath of the oppressor?14 Soon now shall he who is bowed down be set free;he shall not die as those destined for the Pit,neither shall he want for food.15 It is I Jehovah your God,whose name is Jehovah of Hosts,who stir up the Sea so that its waves roar.16 I will put my words in your mouthand shelter you in the shadow of my hand,while I replant the heavens and set the earth in place,that I may say to Zion, You are my people.

17 Rouse yourself; awaken and rise up, O Jerusalem,you who have drunk from Jehovah’s handthe cup of his wrath,drinking to the dregs the bowl of stupor.18 There was none to guide heramong all the children she bore,none to take her by the hand of all the sons she reared.

19 Twofold calamity has befallen you:desolation, ruin—and who laments you?famine, the sword—and who consolesa you?20 Your children lie in a faint at the corner of every street,taken in a net like buffalo.They have their fill of the wrath of Jehovah,of your God’s angry rebuke.

21 Now therefore hear this, O wretched one,drunk, though not with wine.22 Thus says Jehovah, your Lord and God,who defends the cause of his people:I am taking the cup of stupor from your hand;you shall drink no more from the bowl of my wrath.23 And I give it into the hand of your tormentors,those who said of your life,Lie prostrate that we may go over you—so that you made your back as the ground,a mere thoroughfare to passers-by.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

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A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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For Jehovah is comforting Zion,bringing solace to all her ruins;he is making her wilderness like Eden,her desert as the garden of Jehovah.Joyful rejoicing takes place there,thanksgiving with the voice of song.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens;look on the earth beneath:the heavens shall vanish as by smoke,the earth wear out like a garment—its inhabitants shall die in the manner of vermin.But my salvation shall be everlasting;my righteousness shall never fail.

Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

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Let the ransomed of Jehovah return!Let them come singing to Zion,their heads crowned with everlasting joy;let them obtain joy and gladness,and sorrow and sighing flee away.

And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

13

Have you forgotten Jehovah, your Maker—who suspends the heavens,who sets the earth in place—that you go all day in constant dreadof the oppressor’s rageas he readies himself to wreak destruction?What is there to the wrath of the oppressor?

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

21

Now therefore hear this, O wretched one,drunk, though not with wine.

לָכֵן שִׁמְעִי־נָא זֹאת עֲנִיָּה וּשְׁכֻרַת וְלֹא מִיָּיִן ׃

Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

22

Thus says Jehovah, your Lord and God,who defends the cause of his people:I am taking the cup of stupor from your hand;you shall drink no more from the bowl of my wrath.

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

23

And I give it into the hand of your tormentors,those who said of your life,Lie prostrate that we may go over you—so that you made your back as the ground,a mere thoroughfare to passers-by.

Apocalyptic Commentary

Jehovah empowers his servant as an arm of righteousness to deliver his people in an exodus to Zion.

1 Hear me, you followers of righteousness,seekers of Jehovah:Look to the rock from which you were cut,to the quarry out of which you were hewn;2 look to Abraham your father,to Sarah who bore you.He was but one when I called him,but I blessed him by making him many.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

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(51:1–2)

Parallelism of the “followers of righteousness” and “seekers of Jehovah” resembles the parallelism of those who fear Jehovah and heed the voice of his servant (Isaiah 50:10). In effect, those who seek Jehovah are those live righteously and love Jehovah’s righteousness—his servant (Isaiah 41:2; 46:11-13). Contrasting the many who reject the servant, therefore (Isaiah 49:7; 50:6-9, 11), are those who accept him. Just as Abraham “was but one” when Jehovah called him, however—unlike the idolatrous society from which he came—so the followers of righteousness are but one here and one there.

3 For Jehovah is comforting Zion,bringing solace to all her ruins;he is making her wilderness like Eden,her desert as the garden of Jehovah.Joyful rejoicing takes place there,thanksgiving with the voice of song.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:3)

In the millennial age of peace that follows the mission of Jehovah’s servant, promised lands—a second chief covenant blessing after offspring—transform into a new Paradise (Isaiah 11:1-9; 55:4-13; 65:17-25). Ruins are rebuilt by Jehovah’s elect in Zion who receive inheritances of land (Isaiah 44:26; 58:11-12; 61:4). To those who heed the voice of Jehovah’s servant (Isaiah 28:23; 50:10; 58:1), whose righteousness resembles his righteousness (v 1), all attests to covenant curses—ruins, wilderness, and desert—joyously reversing into covenant blessings (Isaiah 32:15-20; 35:1-2, 6-7; 58:12).

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

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(51:4–5)

Jehovah appeals to “my people” or “my nation”—to his covenant people now scattered among the nations of the world—to pay attention to what he is doing. His “precepts” and “law” or teachings go forth as a light “from me.” That is, not from men or their religions but through his servant, who—like Moses (Exodus 24:12; Deuteronomy 4:44)—serves as Jehovah’s lawgiver (Isaiah 42:4, 21; 55:4) and who personifies Jehovah’s righteousness and light (Isaiah 41:2; 42:6; 45:19; 49:6). While the wicked may reject the servant, with his coming the fate of nations and peoples hangs in the balance.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens;look on the earth beneath:the heavens shall vanish as by smoke,the earth wear out like a garment—its inhabitants shall die in the manner of vermin.But my salvation shall be everlasting;my righteousness shall never fail.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

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A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:6)

The heavens vanishing as by smoke, the earth’s wearing out like a garment, and its inhabitants perishing like vermin (cf. Isaiah 5:30; 14:31; 24:4-6) represent the earth’s return to chaos that ends its present cycle before it regenerates to a paradisiacal state. Because salvation follows righteousness (Isaiah 45:8; 46:13; 56:1), salvation—as typified by the earth’s regeneration (v 3)—depends on its inhabitants attaining a state of righteousness. On these principles of salvation preceded by righteousness—exemplified by Jehovah and his servant—rests all that doesn’t die (Isaiah 35:1-7; 58:8, 11; 60:17-22).

7 Hear me, you who know righteousness,O people in whose heart is my law:Do not fear the reproach of men;be undaunted by their ridicule.8 For the moth shall consume them like a garment;moths shall devour them like wool.But my righteousness shall endure forever,my salvation through endless generations.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:7–8)

A progression appears from Jehovah’s people “awaiting” his law (Isaiah 42:4), to the law “going forth” (v 4), and to their having his law “in [their] hearts” (v 7). That progression coincides with Jehovah’s righteousness being “brought near” (Isaiah 46:13), to some persons becoming “followers” of righteousness (v 1), and to their coming to “know” righteousness (v 7). Their knowing him signifies a covenant relationship with Jehovah’s servant who personifies Jehovah’s covenant (Isaiah 42:6; 49:8; 55:3). When people reach that spiritual stage, however, they inevitably incur ridicule and reproach.

Two choices thus face humanity: (1) to emulate the servant’s righteousness, which leads to persecution by enemies; or (2) to reject Jehovah’s standard of righteousness as exemplified by his servant and suffer covenant curses (Isaiah 26:10-11; 42:24-25). Being devoured by moths—a chaos motif—forms a word link to the servant’s enemies being devoured by moths (Isaiah 50:9). His enemies, in other words, are their enemies. When Jehovah reverses his people’s circumstances, however, their righteousness ensures their salvation, literally and figuratively, by an everlasting covenant (Isaiah 61:7-11).

9 Awake, arise; clothe yourself with power,O arm of Jehovah!Bestir yourself, as in ancient times,as in generations of old.Was it not you who carved up Rahab,you who slew the dragon?10 Was it not you who dried up the Sea,the waters of the mighty deep,and made of ocean depths a wayby which the redeemed might pass?

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:9–10)

Jehovah’s empowering his arm—his end-time servant—follows the type his empowering Moses, who led Israel’s ancient exodus out of Egypt: “Then his people recalled the days of Moses of old: ‘Where is he who brought them up out of the Sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put into him his holy Spirit, who made his glorious arm proceed at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them, making an everlasting name for himself when he led them through the deep?’” (Isaiah 63:11-13). Word links—Sea, arm, “waters,” and deep—connect these and other passages.

Jehovah’s empowering his arm—which resembles his rising from the dead (cf. Isaiah 26:19)—sets in motion the deliverance of his people: Jehovah’s arm heralds salvation to the nations of the world (Isaiah 52:10), performs Jehovah’s will in Babylon (Isaiah 48:14-15), gathers and leads Jehovah’s flock (Isaiah 40:10-11), and subdues Assyria (Isaiah 30:30-32). Inextricably linked to Jehovah’s empowerment of his arm is his people’s new exodus to Zion (v 11). Patterned after Israel’s ancient exodus, it requires power over the elements such as Moses exercised on the seraph level (Exodus 14:15-31).

Jehovah’s arm awakening, arising, and being clothed with power thus signifies the servant’s ascent to seraph status. His carving up Rahab and slaying the dragon recalls the role of Moses in subduing Egypt and its Pharaoh (cf. Ezekiel 29:3; Revelation 12:1-13:4) and of the angel who went before the camp of Israel (Exodus 14:19; Numbers 20:16; Isaiah 63:9). The servant’s drying up the Sea, the waters of the deep, denotes his victory over the archtyrant that makes possible the release of Jehovah’s captives from bondage (Isaiah 10:24-27; 50:2) and their exodus to Zion (Isaiah 11:15-16; 43:16-17).

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:11)

Jehovah’s ransomed ones who return in the exodus to Zion are those who love justice and righteousness: “Zion shall be ransomed by justice, those of her who repent by righteousness” (Isaiah 1:27; cf. 59:20). After they have endured sorrow and sighing in Greater Babylon (Isaiah 47:6)—as Jehovah tests their loyalties (Isaiah 33:6; 35:3-4)—he reverses their circumstances: “For you there shall be singing, as on the night when a festival commences, and rejoicing of heart, as when men march with flutes [and drums and lyres] on their way to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel” (Isaiah 30:29).

12 I myself am your Comforter.Who are you that you fear mortal man,the children of men who shall be turned to grass?

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:12)

While God’s holy Spirit serves as a Comforter (John 14:26), so does Jehovah’s servant (Isaiah 61:2) and Jehovah himself—each according to his people’s needs and circumstances. Divine comfort thus follows after trials that test a person’s loyalties when one keeps the terms of Jehovah’s covenant (Isaiah 40:1-2; 49:13-16; 66:5-13). Many such trials come at the hands of “mortal man” or “the children of men,” tempting Jehovah’s people to fear their enemies. But Jehovah reminds his people that before long their oppressors will perish when he turns them into grass—a chaos motif (Isaiah 37:27).

13 Have you forgotten Jehovah, your Maker—who suspends the heavens,who sets the earth in place—that you go all day in constant dreadof the oppressor’s rageas he readies himself to wreak destruction?What is there to the wrath of the oppressor?14 Soon now shall he who is bowed down be set free;he shall not die as those destined for the Pit,neither shall he want for food.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:13–14)

People who live in dread of the rage or wrath of the oppressor—the tyrannical king of Assyria/Babylon—as he prepares to commit world genocide (Isaiah 10:7, 23; 13:5; 21:2; 54:16) are the wicked of Jehovah’s people and the nations (Isaiah 8:9; 19:16; 33:14; 41:5)—all who identify with Isaiah’s Babylon category. Didn’t Jehovah promise to release the captives of his people who repent of their idolatries (Isaiah 42:6-7; 49:8-9, 25; 52:1-3; 61:1)? Two actors thus dominate the end-time world stage—the tyrant and the servant—one of whom descends to the Pit of Dissolution (Isaiah 14:15).

The blessings of physical protection and sustenance follow those who keep the terms of Jehovah’s covenant: “See, all who are enraged at you shall earn shame and disgrace; your adversaries shall come to nought, and perish. Should you look for those who contend with you, you shall not find them; whoever wars against you shall be reduced to nothing” (Isaiah 41:11-12); “Tell the righteous it shall be well with them; they shall eat the fruits of their own labors” (Isaiah 3:10). Those who perish in the Pit of “Corruption” or “Dissolution” (sahat) (Isaiah 38:17-18) identify with Isaiah’s Perdition category.

15 It is I Jehovah your God,whose name is Jehovah of Hosts,who stir up the Sea so that its waves roar.16 I will put my words in your mouthand shelter you in the shadow of my hand,while I replant the heavens and set the earth in place,that I may say to Zion, You are my people.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:15–16)

Israel’s God Jehovah orchestrates humanity’s destiny. He raises up the archtyrant to destroy (Isaiah 10:5-6; 13:2; 54:16) and the servant to deliver (Isaiah 41:2; 45:13; 49:8-10). The Sea—the king of Assyria/Babylon—may be stirred up and its waves roar (Isaiah 5:30; 13:4; 17:12-13); but Jehovah’s servant—his mouth and hand—reveals Jehovah’s words to his people and protects them (Isaiah 41:10, 13; 49:2; 59:21). The earth may jolt out of orbit in Jehovah’s Day of Judgment (Isaiah 13:13; 14:16; 24:19-20), but Jehovah counteracts it at the very time he confirms the covenant with his people Zion.

17 Rouse yourself; awaken and rise up, O Jerusalem,you who have drunk from Jehovah’s handthe cup of his wrath,drinking to the dregs the bowl of stupor.18 There was none to guide heramong all the children she bore,none to take her by the hand of all the sons she reared.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

red

(51:17–18)

Jehovah’s empowerment of his servant (v 9) signals a reversal of circumstances for Jehovah’s people who ascend to the Zion/Jerusalem category and levels higher. Although Jehovah may forgive his people their sins when they repent (Isaiah 43:25; 44:22), the effects of their transgressions—the curses of the covenant—remain with them until their iniquities are expiated (Isaiah 27:9; 40:2). Whether a person suffers for his own transgressions or for those of others—as do proxy saviors under the terms of the Davidic Covenant (Isaiah 52:14; 53:4-6)—all such afflictions originate with covenant curses.

Although the king of Assyria/Babylon and his proxies may oppress them, Jehovah’s people’s drinking from Jehovah’s hand the cup of his wrath in reality originates with their own iniquities that are the effects of their transgressions. It serves to purify and sanctify them when they prove loyal to Jehovah by keeping the law of his covenant. Both mother and children remain in this state of iniquity—suffering covenant curses—until they awaken to the realization that their curses may be reversed, that with the coming of Jehovah’s servant the day of their salvation has dawned (vv 9-11; Isaiah 49:8; 52:1-2, 7).

19 Twofold calamity has befallen you:desolation, ruin—and who laments you?famine, the sword—and who consolesa you?20 Your children lie in a faint at the corner of every street,taken in a net like buffalo.They have their fill of the wrath of Jehovah,of your God’s angry rebuke.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

green

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

blue

A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

tan

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

blue

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

red

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

blue

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

red

A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

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(51:19–20)

Tribulation prevails for Jehovah’s people as they suffer (1) desolation and ruin, and (2) famine and the sword until Jehovah reverses the circumstances of those who repent (vv 21-23). Whether meted out through the king of Assyria/Babylon or his proxies—Jehovah’s sword and wrath—the descent phase of Jehovah’s people through trials and afflictions is proportional to their ascent phase as they are reborn or re-created on higher spiritual levels. The term “twofold,” therefore, suggests that for those of Jehovah’s people who didn’t repent in time, double trouble finally brings them to such rebirth.

21 Now therefore hear this, O wretched one,drunk, though not with wine.22 Thus says Jehovah, your Lord and God,who defends the cause of his people:I am taking the cup of stupor from your hand;you shall drink no more from the bowl of my wrath.23 And I give it into the hand of your tormentors,those who said of your life,Lie prostrate that we may go over you—so that you made your back as the ground,a mere thoroughfare to passers-by.

A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, who exemplifies righteousness in a time of wickedness and prepares the way among Jehovah's elect for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

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A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, the rock of his people's salvation; and (2) Abraham, the righteous progenitor of Jehovah's people, who left house and kindreds to follow his God.

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A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah's wife, the Woman Zion, the exemplar of righteous women; and (2) Sarah, Abraham's wife, who left house and kindreds to follow her husband to the Promised Land.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's voice to his repentant people, who flee into the wilderness to escape destruction, there to sing songs of salvation to their God.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way among Jehovah's people and the nations for Jehovah's coming to reign as salvation.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his people who keep his law and word when he establishes among them his millennial reign of peace.

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A pseudonym of (1) Jehovah God of Israel, and (2) his end-time servant, who intervene in the earth to restore Jehovah's people and to gather his elect in the arms of God's love.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who teaches Jehovah's law and word to his repentant people and who prepares them for Jehovah's coming to reign.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes to the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and who rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who mediates Jehovah's covenant and teaches his law and word to prepare the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, who prepares the way for Jehovah's coming as salvation and rules with him in the earth's millennial age of peace.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah God of Israel, who personifies everlasting salvation to his repentant people when he comes on the earth to establish among them his millennial reign of peace.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his arm of righteousness, whom Jehovah empowers to gather his elect from among the nations and lead them as did Moses in new exodus to Zion.

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A pseudonym of Pharaoh king of Egypt, a power of chaos who enslaves Jehovah's people, who attempts to stop Moses from delivering them, and who typifies a similar leader in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah's servant subdues, facilitating the return of Jehovah's elect in a new exodus to Zion.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's rage toward his unrepentant people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose tyranny Jehovah delivers his elect.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, a power of chaos Jehovah stirs up against the evildoers of his people and the nations but that Jehovah's servant subdues.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, Jehovah's mouth or mouthpiece to his people, who instructs them in the terms of Jehovah's covenant that promise their deliverance from destruction.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, whom Jehovah empowers to protect his repentant people from a cataclysmic destruction in his Day of Judgment.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, whom Jehovah empowers to chasten his alienated people to induce them to repent and return to him.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify Jehovah's wrath toward his alienated people and the nations but from whom Jehovah delivers his elect.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon and his alliance, who personify the sword that slays the evildoers of Jehovah's people and the nations in Jehovah's Day of Judgment.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the evildoers of his people and the nations when Jehovah comes out in judgment against them.

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A pseudonym of Jehovah's end-time servant, his hand of deliverance, who suffers oppression at the hands of his enemies when acting as a proxy savior of Jehovah's people who repent.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, who personifies Jehovah's wrath toward the reprobates of his people and the nations but from whose power Jehovah delivers his elect.

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A pseudonym of the end-time king of Assyria/Babylon, Jehovah's hand of punishment, who smites the reprobates of his people and the nations but whom Jehovah punishes when he has served his purpose.

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(51:21–23)

Jehovah dispenses their own toxic brew to his people’s enemies as he reverses the circumstances of those who repent: “I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh; they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine” (Isaiah 49:26); “Poor wretch, tempest-tossed and disconsolate! . . . You shall be firmly established through righteousness; you will be far from oppression and have no cause to fear, far from ruin, for it shall not approach you” (Isaiah 54:11, 14); “I will delight in Jerusalem, rejoice in my people; no more shall be heard there the sound of weeping or the cry of distress” (Isaiah 65:19).

In the same way that the servant—Jehovah’s right hand—initially suffers at the hands of wicked men (Isaiah 50:6; 52:14), so do those who follow and know him (vv 1, 7; Isaiah 61:7). But Jehovah turns the tables on his people’s tormentors when he doses the archtyrant—Jehovah’s (left) hand—with his own medicine. At all times, Jehovah is true to the terms of his covenant. When his people’s enemies violate the rights of those who keep the terms of the covenant, they incur the curses of the covenant: “I had resolved on a day of vengeance, and the year of my redeemed had come” (Isaiah 63:4).